Optimal Centroid Position Estimation
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Source
- 5556; Conference: Presented at: SPIE 49th Annual Meeting 2004, Denver, CO, United States, Aug 02 - Aug 05, 2004
- Subject
- 42 ENGINEERING
42 ENGINEERING ACCURACY
ALGORITHMS
ALIGNMENT
IMPLEMENTATION
LASERS
POSITIONING
PROCESSING
SIMULATION
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 0277-786X
The alignment of high energy laser beams for potential fusion experiments demand high precision and accuracy by the underlying positioning algorithms. This paper discusses the feasibility of employing online optimal position estimators in the form of model-based processors to achieve the desired results. Here we discuss the modeling, development, implementation and processing of model-based processors applied to both simulated and actual beam line data.